What do you do when your Board?

Well, me,I play games, but now that I've finished Mass Effect 2 twice now( had to check out both endings) and Bioshock 2 is not out just yet, so I build high level AMD Dragon systems on paper. Whats a Dragon system? pretty much every high end part AMD has. as in:

Mother Board

ASUS R.O.G. Crosshair III Formula ATX AM3 790FX/SB750 2XPCI-E16 3XPCI-E 1XPCI CrossFireX Motherboard

Processor

AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Quad Core Processor AM3 3.4GHZ 8MB Cache 125W 45NM

Video Card

XFX Radeon HD 5870 850MHZ 1GB GDDR5 4.8GHZ 2XDVI HDMI Display Port DIRECTX11 PCI-E Video Card

OR

XFX Radeon HD 5970 725MHZ 2GB 4GHZ GDRR5 2XDVI Display Port PCI-E Video Card

ether one will be just fine. but the 5970 is a duel core card. but its also a big card at 13.5" long, so you may need a bigger case.

Memory

2X
Corsair XMS3 Dominator GT CMG4GX3M2B1600C7 4GB DDR3 2X2GB DDR3-1600 CL 7-7-7-20 AMD Bemp Memory Kits
Ultra-high performance 4GB DOMINATOR GT kit for AMD Phenom IIDDR3 processors and platforms. 1600MHz, 7-7-7-20, 1.65V with AMD Black Edition Memory Profile (BEMP Support). Includes Corsair Airflow Fan.

Dominator kit also supports AMD's Black Edition Memory Profiles (B.E.M.P), which allows for the aggressive latency settings to be automatically configured in Windows using the AMD OverDrive™ software utility

 Case

Coolermaster CM 690 II Advanced ATX Mid Tower Case Black 4-5.25 6-3.5 INT bays

CPU Cooler

Corsair Cooling Hydro Series H50 High Performance CPU Cooler System LGA775 LGA1366 LGA1156 AM2 AM3
This unit will give you room for the memory coolers(fan) and give you more room to play with over clocking your rig

Power supply

Corsair TX850W 850W CMPSU-850TX 12V 70A 24PIN ATX Active PFC 140M Fan Power Supply

Optical

LG CH10LS20 Bluray Reader & DVD Writer Combo Drive 10X BD-ROM 16X DVD-RW Lightscribe

OS Hard Drive

Intel Gen 2 X25-M 80GB 34NM Postville 2.5IN SSD SATA Solid State Disk

Game and App Hard Drive

2 X
Western Digital Velociraptor 300GB SATA 10000RPM 16MB Cache 3.5IN Hard Drives
in a RAID 0 will give as much performance as a spining disk can and more size at 600GB

Operating System

Microsoft Windows 7 Professional Edition 64BIT DVD OEM

Case mod / Temp Display

NZXT Sentry LX High Performance Aluminum Fan Controller Black W/ LCD Dual 5.25IN
Just to watch the temps inside, and if you want, run up to 5 fans. plus the handy clock helps for when your in game, and wanna look at the time

Keyboard

Steelseries Merc Stealth Illuminated Gaming Keyboard W/ Dedicated Gaming Terrain

Mouse

Steelseries Ikari Laser Professional Gaming Mouse

Mouse Pad

Steelseries Qck Cloth Mouse Pad 11.2X12.6IN

Headset

Steelseries 5H V2 Headset HI-FI Headphones 16-28000HZ 40OHM
Think i like Steel Series? oh ya

Webcam

Microsoft Lifecam Cinema 720P 16:9 HD Webcam Retail Box Auto Focus Noise Cancelling Microphone.

And Monitor(s)

3X
HP Compaq LA1905WG 19IN Widescreen LCD Monitor 1440X900 1000:1 5ms VGA DVI-D HDCP DisplayPort
Why 3? the system you just looked at has Eyefinity. so you can span your desktop to all 3 or play games on all 3. why these 3? well, so they match for one. and the other thing is these monitors are the cheepest monitor with built in Display Port yet. and i dont have room for huge monitors. to get the eyefinity working, you need 1 displayport monitor and 2 of any other port the card has on it. 2 x DVI-D, 1 x HDMI, or a $99 active display port adaptor will be required to adaptor the display port to any thing else.

so just around $3600 you can have a smoking fast gaming rig, that also looks good

BioShock 2 UBER edition

here is whats in the special edition, but wait theirs more, for just under $15 000 USD you can get your own big daddy. the UBER edition... (time index 3:10)


looks good to me. wonder why they canceled it :P

this years movies

this years movies that some of us are looking forward too

IRON MAN 2


Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

and my son's 2 fav's
Shrek forever after and
Toy Story 3


Iron Man (Single-Disc Edition)
The Shrek Trilogy (Shrek / Shrek 2 / Shrek the Third) (Full Screen Edition)
Astro BoyToy Story (10th Anniversary Edition)
Toy Story 2 (Two-Disc Special Edition)

Best Game Ever!

Are you missing out on what can be the best game ever todate.


The Many race's in the game

Soon I will show a few screen shots of this game play in 4098 x 766 resulation
How? you ask...

back to the game..
Do you get the idea knowledge is power?

I think thats the idea with this eye candy

Your Team of upto 9, each with their own power

This is a "Justicar" A Justicar is an asari who has forsworn having children and given up all worldly possessions aside from weapons and armor. They wander the galaxy righting wrongs – as defined by their unwavering code of justice.

But maybe in 5 days this will all change.

As the DADDY comes home again
Mass Effect 2  
Bioshock 2
Aliens vs. Predator 
Dirt 2 
Team Fortress 2
 LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
 LEGO BatmanBatman: Arkham Asylum
Left 4 Dead
 Left 4 Dead 2 
 Trine
Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box
 World of Goo
 BC:Rearmed [Online Game Code] 
Bionic Commando

PcPer has reported that intel has anounced the upcoming ISSCC conference (http://www.isscc.org/isscc/index.htm) details were released about the Westmere 6-core product otherwise known as Gulftown. This processor, that will fit into existing LGA1366 processor sockets on current X58 consumer motherboards, will likely be released in the next 60 days or so but we are finally getting more details and information about what to expect.


Because the Gulftown CPU is built on Intel's 32nm process technology, consumers will be getting a 50% increase in core count and a 50% increase in cache for the same power envelope as current 45nm LGA1366 processors. Based on the Westmere architecture, Gulftown will once again re-integrate the triple-channel memory controller on-die; a change from the first Westmere parts that were released that were dual-core and moved a dual-channel memory controller to a second on-package chip coupled with integrated graphics. (See our Clarkdale CPU coverage here.) And just to clarify - Gulftown will not have integrated graphics on it.

The processor will have 12MB of L3 cache and include HyperThreading and Turbo Boost technology. The die is 240mm^2 and consists of 1.17 billion transistors.



Gulftown will be released both as a consumer part as well as a Nehalem EP processor for servers and workstations. This of course means a return to the world of Intel QuickPath Technology (QPI) as DMI will be limited to the mainstream processors of Lynnfield and Clarkdale. Another interesting change on the Westmere-based processors is that Intel has added support for low-voltage DDR3 memory that will run with little as 1.35 volts compared to the 1.5 volts the controller is at today.